Just setup what will become my Caribbean Mangrove Mini Lagoon biotope tank this past Wednesday 4/9. Starting with 10 lbs live rock from Gulf Live Rock, substrate is about 1.5” Miracle Mud and 2” Arag-Alive. Those super purple and rocks are some rubble I seeded in my reef tank for a few weeks. Currently growing 3 mangrove propagules and a clump of halimeda. Probably will remove a good bit of this rock after the cycle, but 10 lbs was the minimum order.
As for hardware, tank is a 10g Landen AIO. Light is a Kessil A80 set to full daylight, but only running the light a few hours a day for now to avoid algae taking hold. Not planning to use any physical filtering. Have an ATO connected to the same reservoir as my reef tank. Planning to keep this tank real simple.
Not exactly sure what direction I’ll go as far as fish or inverts. The only criterion is that I’m going to limit this tank to only Caribbean species. So that means no stony corals. Open to any suggestions!
